I’m willing to concede that there may be some people for whom Live From the Underground is their first real experience listening to Big K.R.I.T. To those people I say welcome, you’re not too late. Enjoy listening to a man...
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"The first time you have sex is way more exciting than the second time. Not that the second time isn't exciting, it's just ... the initial excitement of finally having that first album…”
Interesting analogy B.o.B., and...
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Living life as a rap blogger means that nearly every hip-hop related thought that I’ve had over the past five years is only a few clicks away. While this chronicle has been the cause of some serious embarrassment – yes, I...
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We live in a culture that’s violently allergic to consensus. Whether its politics, sports, music or the superiority of flaming hot Cheetos vs. classic Cheetos, Americans have been trained to pick a side, build a bunker and...
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There are one-hundred reasons why Rittz won’t become a successful rapper – let’s go ahead and name a few. For starters, he’s white, which always invites suspicion. And to make matters worse, he’s Southern and white...
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The story of Killer Mike’s career is the story of non-fu*k giving. When Mike first came onto the national stage Snappin & Trappin alongside Outkast he had the cojones to call his own verse a classic, a move some considered...
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It’s become commonplace to blame artists for the increasing scarcity of classic albums release over the last few years, but in truth the blame lies as much with iPod-obsessed listeners as “I gotta have a hot single”...
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Over the last decade R&B has slowly but surely morphed from “rhythm & blues” to “hip-hop that just so happens to have a R&B singer on the hook.” Or, at the very least, “R&B that just so happens to have a rapper on a...
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We’ve all seen it happen 100 times. One member of a crew becomes a star and one of two things happen. One, another crew member who would never make it on their own gets a disproportionate amount of attention and then slowly...
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Mac Miller has gone from being the white kid from Pittsburgh with a catchy mixtape to having a Billboard #1 independent album and being the most marketable, up-and-coming rapper in the game. He has been approved by an array...
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